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Motherboard reports on a press release by the University of California Davis, where researchers designed a multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) microprocessor. Unlike a GPU, each core can run distinct instructions on distinct data.
According to the researchers the chip has a greater number of cores than any other "fabricated programmable many-core [chip]," exceeding the 336 cores of the Ambric Am2045, which was produced commercially.
IBM was commissioned to fabricate the processor in 32 nm partially depleted silicon-on-insulator (PD-SOI). It is claimed that the device can "process 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 1.3 watts." or, when operating at greater supply voltage and clock rate, "execute 1 trillion instructions/sec while dissipating 13.1 W."
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2016, @06:47AM
No all they have to make is the hardware because the way software is developed these days is you create an empty github repo with a description of the software you want and a bunch of naive kids will write it for you before they realize they should have gotten paid to do it.
Here let me explain the relationship between hardware and software in terms you can understand:
https://xkcd.com/644/ [xkcd.com]